Under the Capital Laws of New-England that went ... was on the verge of losing its liberty. He said that the history of using punishment by death (e.g., the Romans, 20 years of Czaress Elizabeth ...

Capital punishment is vengeance rather than retribution and, as such, is a morally dubious concept The anticipatory suffering of the criminal, who may be kept on death row for many years ...

The ethical problems involved include the general moral issues of punishment with the added problem of whether it is ever morally right to deprive a human being of life.

Investigating the attitudes about capital punishment in contemporary America ... but generally neglected, role in the recent history of America's death penalty. While numerous scholars have argued ...

The number of executions is rising globally, despite many countries abolishing the use of capital punishment. According to the latest figures from Amnesty International, in 2022: 55 countries had ...

INDIANAPOLIS — The death penalty has a complicated history and legacy in Indiana. Since Indiana initially implemented capital ...

Not only was Feguer the last person put to death in the state of Iowa, but he was the last inmate to be executed on the ...

In our series on how Biden can use the lame duck period to secure civil liberties and civil rights, we examine how Biden can ...